Re-evaluating political tourism in the Holy Land: towards a conceptualization of peace.
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Abstract
This chapter discusses political consumerism as a strategy employed to support or denounce a political, social, or environmental action, with an emphasis on the concepts of tourism boycotting and boycotting of the Holy Land. It then offers a re-evaluation of political tourism in the Israeli-Palestinian context, with attention to the conceptualization of peace tourism as the antithesis of politically oriented tourism and denounces solidarity tourism as a form of tourism that perpetuates stereotypes and extends social, political and cultural gaps between belligerent groups, thereby contributing to conflict reinforcement rather than resolution. The initiatives of the Tourism4Peace Forum are reviewed as an example of best practice, reflecting the very essence of the peace through tourism concept.